Support to other MPEG2 encoders and batch encoding are coming with beta 4. Subtitle support is a bit delayed.

@chaparral

Thanks for testing AVStoDVD on Vista. Very appreciated because I cannot do it.
The problem you are reporting (cannot load the video stream) is very strange. To load a video or video/audio stream you have only to hit the button circled in red in the below picture.

Support to other MPEG2 encoders and batch encoding are coming with beta 4. Subtitle support is a bit delayed.

@chaparral

Thanks for testing AVStoDVD on Vista. Very appreciated because I cannot do it.
The problem you are reporting (cannot load the video stream) is very strange. To load a video or video/audio stream you have only to hit the button circled in red in the below picture.

I guess the reason is the Vista Desktop Theme setup: look at the toolbar icons width, they are larger than in XP, so the "single" toolbar row become "double", overwriting the Video Source textbox and button....

I hate M$...

In the next release I will reduce the toolbar icons width to a "Vista-proof" value...

I am doing some investigation how to add CCE support to AVStoDVD. Please correct me if I make any mistakes:

- there is no way to feed CCE with a complete set of command line arguments
- there is the possibility to feed CCE with a .ecl file, that is basically a text file containing the project setup
- there are a lot of CCE Trial bundle type (SP, SP2, Basic): can they all be feeded by the same .ecl file or are there any differences?
- is there any particular CCE Trial bundle that I should select?

I guess the reason is the Vista Desktop Theme setup: look at the toolbar icons width, they are larger than in XP, so the "single" toolbar row become "double", overwriting the Video Source textbox and button....

I hate M$...

In the next release I will reduce the toolbar icons width to a "Vista-proof" value...

Bye

Thanks Mrc, until then i'll wait to see...
About your latest questions about CCE support i can suggest you a link of a forum that someone who is developing a program like yours but with much more choices because he's devopping that since 2 yeras ago i guess and he has created a very interesting program so if you would you can take a look and post your questions and doubts about it...
The developer has the nick of Delta and he is usually very helpful...http://www.avi2iso.com/

The ecl files of SP & SP2 are very different and not compatable with one another. The ecl files of CCE SP 2.5, 2.6 & 2.7 RETAIL have all been the same format, with very minor differences. Some of those Trial version will not generate an ecl file (2.66 & 2.67) and programs use eclcce.exe to overcome that problem. CCE Basic ecl's are different again. The way both DVD2SVCD and The FilmMachine uses CCE is by loading in a generated avisynth file, saving out the ecl file, modifying it with calculated bitrate, then loading it back in and starting the encode. DVD ReBuilder does much the same thing I believe.

The ecl files of SP & SP2 are very different and not compatable with one another. The ecl files of CCE SP 2.5, 2.6 & 2.7 RETAIL have all been the same format, with very minor differences. Some of those Trial version will not generate an ecl file (2.66 & 2.67) and programs use eclcce.exe to overcome that problem. CCE Basic ecl's are different again.

So the answer to the question "Which is the CCE Trial bundle that I should select" is: CCE SP.

thanks for the new release MrC
i thought i'd see how the CCE works, but i don't seem to be able to start the encode using CCE SP 2.67.00.27
a few seconds after pressing start, the program ends with these messages:

Mmmhh, I have tested CCE SP 2.50 Trial plus EclCCe and it worked. I hope 2.67 does not have different .ecl configuration!

Just before clicking OK when there is the warning message (VIDEO ENCODING problems), goto to your TEMP folder and look for the file CCS_SP.ecl. Open it directly in your CCE SP and take note of the error messages. Thanks a lot!!!

i copied the .ecl config file to the desktop before pressing ok in the warning box
opened it directly in CCE and there are no error messages, and no files listed in the CCE windowhttp://img114.imageshack.us/img114/3536/ccexo2.jpg
below is the contents of the CCE_SP.ecl file:

Batch encode worked for me too. Two small samples ,Two dvd folders too. Maybe an option to add all jobs in batch list to make one dvd instead of each having having their own folder. So all movies would be on one dvd.

Will AVStoDVD be able to use the Roba method for automatic sizing and one pass variable bitrate?

Where can I find some info/code/sources about RoBa? I am not familiar with it and I need first to study how it works.

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Originally Posted by Pyr0

CCE with OPV is a *lot* faster than Qenc or HC Encoder

What do you mean with "CCE with OPV"?

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Originally Posted by Pyr0

Will there be any support for mkv x264 files?

Input or Output support? Input is already supported if you have installed a DirectShow codec that decode mkv x264...

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Originally Posted by Dkruskie

Maybe an option to add all jobs in batch list to make one dvd instead of each having having their own folder. So all movies would be on one dvd.

As a matter of fact, batch list purpose is to have a list of jobs, each of them with their own settings. One job can be set up to output elementary streams (m2v and ac3), another to produce a ISO image, the last to burn a DVD.

I agree that AVStoDVD can include the possibility to put multiple input files onto a single output dvd (structure/image/disc), but I think that it should be managed in a different way. Somehow like TMPGEnc DVD Author for example. What do you think?

The first real experience I had with it was using DVD2SVCD with tylo's D2SRoba. http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=73243
It just made it so quick and easy to get accurate sized DVD's time after time... and to me, the quality looked just as good as multiple passes

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Originally Posted by MrC

What do you mean with "CCE with OPV"?

OPV = One Pass VBR

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrC

Input or Output support? Input is already supported if you have installed a DirectShow codec that decode mkv x264...

My bad, I had been trying it on a 100mb clip I have, but didn't realise the audio was DTS. Once that had been converted to AC3 and remuxed, AVStoDVD completed the conversion.

I found FAVC was able to encode the original clip with DTS - converting to AC3.
But for some reason, although both apps were using HCenc, the AVStoDVD result seemed slightly better with less blur in character movement.

Maybe I should have asked if there was going to be DTS support instead

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Originally Posted by MrC

I agree that AVStoDVD can include the possibility to put multiple input files onto a single output dvd (structure/image/disc), but I think that it should be managed in a different way. Somehow like TMPGEnc DVD Author for example. What do you think?

That's how I usually put my DVD's together, using TMPGEnc DVD Author - quick and easy

TMPGEnc DVD Author is not not prob either..DVDLab pro will also take the vob files With HCenc how about being able to change the max bitrate and the matrix it uses, right now it uses only the mpeg matrix. In HCenc I usually use the notch matrix and 8000 for max bitrate.